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linjus eeneris JnvenU et inteliexit, eam genus novum Orcliidearum consli-\ 

 tucre debere, cui ob pilositatem gynostemi noinen Telipogouis (a tI^o^ ex- 

 tremura et '^dy^y barba) imposuit. Immoitalis Linnajus vero a Muiisio Imjus 

 planlai particcps factus, adspectu in errorem inductus, eani ad Tiades- 

 cantiam retulit 



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1. TELIPOGON ANGusTiFOLius. Tab. LXXV. 



T, foliis lineari-lanccolatis, aciiminatis; labello glabro, 



Tiadescantia nervosa. Lum, Sp. pl. eiL TV. -x. p. i.S, 



Crescit ad arhores in temperatis Itegni NovograJiatensis ^jiucta SaiHa Jna et Mariquiia , 



alL 400 hea^. % Floret Julio^ 



rr.A^T.v parasilica. Radices simplices , crassiusculje , lereles , glabra? , olbida;- Caules basi foliati » 

 apice pauciflori, teretcs ^ glabri , septem- aut octopollicares. Folia djslicha , appro^imata, lineari- 

 lanceolata, acuminala, has» vai-foaotia, corfacea , glahra , vis polUcax^ia- Flores duo aut quatuor , 

 subspicati, petlicellaLi, magnitudine floris Tradescaiiti^ virginica:!, suffulti bractea OTata, acula, ca- 

 rinata , glabra, membr:inacea, pcdiveJhim glabrum suba:tjuaote- Calyx patens , glnber , flavescens ; 

 foliola Iria exicriora iequalia, oblongo-l^nceolata , acuminaia , plana » trinervia , semipollic^ana j duo 

 ioteriora Inieralia ovala, acula, plana , teriuifer mem]jr;macea , extcrioribus louj^iora , octo- aut 00- 

 vemDervia, nervis violaceis; sextum. (labellum) late ovatum , aculam, pianum, lateralibus fcre duplo 

 latios, slabrum , multincrvium^ nervis (cirtiter irj riul 20} violaeeis- GYftCSToiu^i ercctum » pilis cras- 

 siusculis , violaceis uiidicjue obsitum , breve , duas lineas longiim , in snperiore parte mterius excavatum , 

 tcrminaium appendice subulala, glabra , erecla , anie fructificatifmem recta , demum apice Iiain;ila- 

 Antueh.v ifig' 'lO obcordata, unilocularis, bivalvjs, glabra, pedicclLitaj pedicellus tcres , glaber , antbera 

 triplo longior, basin versus hamatus , supra bai^uim interius rorainine latemli, cneco instructus ad reci- 

 piendam appendicem, gynoslemum terminantem- Anihera , (fua; ante iVuctilicationem in excavatione 

 gynostemi posita est (^7^. i.),sub ipsa frucliflcaliorte adscendit (ffg. 3.3-)- PMrLiNis masSn^e qoatuor, cla- 

 valje,sessiles, cereacea;,ilavo::, OvAiuum glabmm, Stigma pilis viohceis tectum- Capslla oblonga, costala> 

 glahra , colyce marcido cori^nata. 



2, TELIPOGON LATIFOLIUS. t 



T. foiiis lanccoUlo-oblongis, aciitis^ labullo baai baibalo» 



Crescit in re^ione ferit^entissima Provinciie Jaen de Bracamoros , ivter pagos Choros ct 

 Tomependa^juxtaconfluentejn et Chinchipes Jlujninis Amazonum. % Floret Augusto. 



Planta parasiiica. Rat>ices simpllces, crassa? , terelcs , glabrre, alLidic. Cacljs glaber» anceps }, oclo- 

 aut ooycmpollicaris, basi loliaJus , apioe paucifloriis. Folu lanceolato-oblooga, acuta , plana, carnosa , 

 exsiccata submembranocea , striato-nervosa , glHbra , bi- aut tripollicaria , scx lineus lata. Floivks tres siul 

 quatuor, subspicali , duos pollices lati , suflulti brjictca ovala, acuta, cariunta, semipollicari. Calyx, 

 Gtnostemlm et A^TUERA proisus ut in T. angustifolio , labellum lamen basi pilis violaceisbarbatump 



Pra^cedenti proximus , omuibus tamcn partibus m.ijor et hbello barbaio. 



